The parent-child communication implications of infant feeding apps
Lead investigator
Professor Lelia Green
Chief Investigator and Connected Child Co-Leader
Edith Cowan University
Investigators
Associate Professor Sonia White
Chief Investigator and Healthy Child Co-Leader
QUT
Professor Leon Straker
Chief Investigator and Healthy Child Co-Leader
Curtin University
Professor Simon Smith
Chief Investigator and Healthy Child Co-Leader
The University of Queensland
Associate Professor Diana Arabiat
Associate Investigator
Edith Cowan University
Dr Shantha Karthigesu
Associate Investigator
Edith Cowan University
Francesca Stocco
PhD student
Edith Cowan University
Dr Kylie J. Stevenson
Associate Investigator
Murdoch University
Dr Emma Jayakumar
Research Assistant
Edith Cowan University
Overview
This project investigates the impact upon parent-child communication of infant feeding apps. It problematises the inclusion of a screen as a novel component within early processes of infant feeding. It explores the motivations and concerns that support parents’ use of infant feeding apps and the reasons why some parents might choose not to use them or might discontinue their use. In connecting a parent to data, or to a network of friends/family/other parents, the app might reassure the parent but might, at the same time, hinder realisation of the full potential of parent-child communication in the process of infant feeding.
Project aims
- Eplore the motivations and concerns that support parents’ use of infant feeding apps and the reasons why some parents might choose not to use them or might discontinue their use
Project design
- Interviews
Understand the impact of infant feeding apps upon parent-child communication.
Timeframe
1 July 2022 - 30 June 2024Contact
Professor Lelia Green
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